Minority and Disadvantaged: Pros, Cons
2010-05 MBE and DBE firm owners debate whether the designation really helps their business. Architectural Record / May Issue / By G. Chaise Nunnally Can a label help or hinder business success? The obvious answer is that it depends on the message behind the label and what one ultimately hopes to gain from it. Such [...]
Self-Guided Architectural Walking Tours In Indianapolis
2010-04-29 Sanford Garner is serving as a tour guide for Tour #1: Downtown Monuments and Memorials. This is part of the Walk Indianapolis project designed to help visitors and locals alike explore more of our great city. We are doing this through self-guided tours of the city’s landmark buildings, with audio commentary from some of [...]
Mass Ave Project Works Toward April Approval
2010-03-02 IBJ /Tom Harton A Massachusetts Avenue project announced two years ago is zeroing in on financing but will face some opposition over the amount of parking the plan calls for when it seeks city approval next month. Trail Side on Mass Ave would include 69 one-bedroom apartments and about 23,000 square feet of ground-level [...]
Commit To A New Resolution: Find A Mentor To Make You Better
2010-01-15 As we enter 2010, like most people, I’m writing down personal and business goals for the coming year. Increase sales? Check. Exercise more? Check. Design something that’s makes a difference in people’s lives? Double-check. You get the picture. Like all of you, I’ve been through this drill before, always with good intentions – but [...]
Sanford Garner Receives A 2009 AIA Service Award
2009-10-15 Created in 1999, this award is named after the first female registered architect in Indiana. A Terre Haute native, Juliet Peddle (1889 – 1979) was the second woman to graduate from then University of Michigan School of Architecture. Employed for a time with Edward H. Clark, Inc., in Chicago when also co-founded the Chicago [...]
Neighbor Input Needed In Revitalization Efforts
2009-09-10 IBJ Letters To The Editor As an organization working hard to help revitalize Indianapolis, Local Initiatives Support Corp. applauds the efforts of the American Institute of Architects in our city. We also wanted to take a moment to second the ideas expressed last week in AIA Indianapolis President Sanford Garner’s Viewpoint column. Garner expressed [...]
Urban Redevelopment Requires Dialogue
2009-08-03 VIEWPOINT Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) Later this summer, architects, urban planners, economists and hydrologists from around the city and around the nation will come to Indianapolis to begin planning for the redevelopment of the area near 22nd Street and the Monon Trail. Known as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Sustainable Design Assessment Team, [...]
A2SO4 Project Manager Participates In Sustainability Workshop
2009-06-12 Mark Darrall, LEED AP, an A2SO4 project manager and co-developer of A2SO4′s EcoIntegration green design initiatives, joined nearly three dozen colleagues in support of Indianapolis mayor Greg Ballard’s goal of making Indianapolis “the greenest city in the Midwest” by reimagining Indianapolis’s largest public building as an example of energy and water efficiency. A two-day [...]
Indianapolis Monthly Home Features Douglass Pointe Lofts
2008-04-03 Douglass Pointe Lofts, part of Fall Creek Place, is currently featured in Indianapolis Monthly Home Spring 2008 edition. The project, designed by A2SO4 and Rottmann Architects, is the focus of the article “The New Home Office”, a feature on the impact that live-work condos can have for some small business owners.
7th Annual New Partners For Smart Growth
2008-01-29 A2SO4 founding partner Sanford Garner will be speaking at the 7th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth, a three-day conference focused on building safe, healthy and livable communities. The event will be held February 7-9th in Washington DC. Sanford will take part in the session Building Great Communities Through Collaborative Problem Solving where he [...]
Supporting Positive Change
2008-01-14 A2SO4 is proud to support +CHANGE, an event hosted by IndiNOMA, the Indiana Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. +CHANGE will feature Dr. Craig L. Wilkins and Hector LaSala on January 25th in Indianapolis. The event will be a unique opportunity for students and professionals who are interested in creating positive change [...]
More Board Elections
2008-01-09 A2SO4 is pleased to announce that Wil Marquez and Sanford Garner have been elected to the positions of vice president and secretary on the 2008 IndiNOMA board of directors. IndiNOMA is the Indiana Chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects. Sanford Garner has also been elected to the 2008 AIA Indianapolis board where [...]
Recent Hires At A2SO4
2008-01-08 A2SO4 has announced the recent hires of Kumar Karadi, Rachel Cutler, and Jeremy M. Stewart and the addition of interns Jamie Owens, Asia Smith-Bey, and Lourenzo Giple. Kumar Karadi has joined A2SO4 as Architectural Designer. Kumar holds a Master of Architecture from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Architecture from Karnataka [...]
Veolia Headquarters
2008-01-07 The Indianapolis Business Journal announced today that Paris-based Veolia Water is moving its North American headquarters from Houston to Indianapolis’s National City Center. A2SO4 serves as architect of record for the project, which involves renovation of Veolia’s space in the building’s east and south towers.
Killian Group Receives ABC Award
2007-12-27 A2SO4 client Killian Construction Company was awarded for the Renovation/Restoration of the new Killian Group Corporate Office in Springfield, Missouri. The award was issued by the Associated Builders and Contractors Heart of America Chapter in Kansas City, Missouri. A2SO4 served as architect of record for the project.
Key Team Member Elected to USGBC Indiana Board of Directors
2007-12-21 A2SO4 project manager, Mark Darrall, LEED AP, has been elected to a two-year term serving on the board of directors for the Indiana Chapter of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). USGBC is a non-profit organization known for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, which has been [...]
EI Training – Year One
2007-11-20 A2SO4 has completed a year of EcoIntegration training for its staff, clients and design partners. This year’s training included such sessions as: Exposure to Regional Precedence of Sustainable Design; Building Energy Modeling & the Integrated Design Process; Complex Choices — the Many Shades of Green; Furnishing High Performance Buildings; and Better Places to Learn. [...]
NOMA Design Excellence
2007-11-20 A2SO4 has been awarded the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) “Design Excellence Honor Award” for Douglass Pointe Lofts. NOMA was established to foster communications and fellowship among minority architects through the formation of a federation of existing and proposed local minority architectural groups. Douglass Pointe Lofts was also recently awarded an achievement award [...]
A Monumental Affair 2007
2007-11-09 Last night, projects in which A2SO4 was involved took home four awards at the 30th annual “A Monumental Affair”, a program of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. One of the projects, the State of Indiana Forensic & Health Sciences Laboratory, received Honor Awards for Architecture and Project/Community Development and a Merit Award for Construction. Douglass [...]
Lab Certified LEED
2007-11-05 The State of Indiana Forensics and Health Sciences Lab has received LEED Certification. A2SO4 led the design team through the initial portion of the LEED process including low-energy design, reduced heat island effect, reduced water consumption, enhanced indoor air quality, construction waste recycling, and reduced light pollution. As associate architect for the project, A2SO4 [...]
Aesthesia Symposium
2007-09-27 A2SO4 will be represented at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Aesthesia Symposium by two key team members. Aesthesia, a two day symposium presented by the SIUC School of Architecture, the Fine Arts Lecture Series, and the University Museum at SIUC, will provide a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion of innovation in art and architecture. A2SO4’s [...]
IUPUI Student Design Show
2007-09-10 Two A2SO4 team members will be involved in this year’s 8th annual Student Design Show at IUPUI. Vop Osili, A2SO4 founding partner, will be the event’s emcee and project architect Tony Elliott will be judging the category of commercial interior design.
A2SO4 on Inside INdiana Business
2007-08-23 A2SO4 associate principal and director of architecture, Daniel Render, AIA, will appear as a guest on Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick to discuss A2SO4’s international design projects and commitment to sustainability and green design. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Inside INdiana Business has developed a network of the state’s leading television, radio and print mediums [...]
Context Sensitive Solutions in Gary
2007-08-05 Sanford Garner, A2SO4 founding partner, will be presenting at the 2007 PBCD Planning Conference in Gary, Indiana. The conference, which will be held from August 8th-11th will center on the dynamic challenges facing the planning profession and the black community as many cities and towns work towards revitalization. Mr. Garner will present on Context [...]
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